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LORA RECORD YOU SHOULD READ THE RECORD—-THE flfeWSIEST NEWSPAPER IN CLAY COUNTY VOLUME vni. FLORA, ILUNOIS. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 9. 1920 NUMBER 5t JMEHCM LEGiOII BEWWIICES THONrSM Tw* TttOTUWinii Hembera in State Conventien et Chieage teat FrMey Paas Riiielatleii Cendemntng Hayer'a War Reeerd CHEERING LASTED FOR SfiVEN MINUTES fc ;¦' i t Last FiMait doHa« a sasoloa ot 'tka Aiaarlean begtoa stata convan- ^tion, keld at 'Madlaak lample, ia Chl¬ eago, two (&a««aad oianikers of the Lagtoa psaiMd the folowteg resolu¬ tion ooaeMaaiag the war record ot Mayar Thompaaa, of Chicago: it we ena- the war rer- aie tit Vbuyar Wai. Hale Thomp¬ soa at eUcago." Upon passage of the resolution oheeirlac dala|^«aa yniaped to their teat, standards and hats and papers wara toeead In the air, the baad play- ad, every veteran shouted at top of kis voice, and aliove all could be h^rd the famous Iwttle cry ot the Marine Oorps. For seven minutes Col. Mtlltpa J. Goraman, state command¬ er, hamnMred In vain for order. And this reoolotlon rapeasants tha aentl- mant of the World War veterans who taUght to down the imperialism of Oanaany. Tha AaMriean Legion is a aea-palltlcal body. Thompson wants ta eoatrol Illinois state goverament aaxt UMaesday. mavreat tickbt in lais la l>tt Thompaon raa against JtedUI MeCormick for Uaited States Swator aad Was defaated. In the No¬ rther aleeHoa he bolted McCor- latok aud lastraeted his Chicago or- aaaUatioa to vote for Senator J. Ham Lewis. Democrat, or Wm. Bross Uoyd. Socialist candidate or United States Senator, and this bolt cost McCormick 60,000 votes tn Chicago, bnt he carried the state. Lloyd has now been convicted by the United States court for sedition and is un¬ der sentence to federal prison. Tkympson also bolted 18 of the Cook ooanty Republican candidates in 1918. Records DokH Agree With Platform. Lea Small bas announced that he stands, with Thompson and is for him atl the way. And he is absolutely con- sisteat, for he seems to say "yes" to ererything that lliompson wants Howdver, other candidates on the TkoniBMnJUhtkdt,»«.. not «Q. tent. Barr, candidate for attornev geaeral, oa tke ptctform wbieh de- ANTao!<nr dohbrtv, DIBS AT DRCATrR HBPVmiiCAN MBBTING' HBIiD liAST FRIDAY aiaate /rapaal ot tha attUtlaa U«, toakfct la the «uta seaata to iauta thelaw wbea a tight was autde to ta- paat It. Me aJaa apBsaredJa attoraar tor tMkMKat-Ohieago atMat railway betora tka utlUUas board and secured an iaeiaased fara to 1* cents, show¬ ing tka eorporation could not remain aalraat an a less rate. Frank L. Smitk, candidate for U. 8. senator, kaa endorsed F. H. Funk, a member ot the BtllUlee board, to succeed him as Oaagressman in hiii distriet. tssoe Vf toVbe Voten On aaxt Wedneeday, Sept. Ittb thi Bepttbllcan voters ot Illinois and Clar eoaaty will make a momentous deaialoa as to the character of their stata goverament for the next four I yean. i^iur years ago Gov. Lawden and tho Ilapttblican party found lUlaqla kakkilipt, and had to pass emergency legislation to meet pressing dntms dua. Naw the sute treasury bas mtl- iiaas aad all orders are discounted. Tha state tax rate bas been reduced uatll la*t year Clay couaty paid f 4,0d6 Mas in state Uxea than pra- riaaaijr. The budget system is la op- oration, which has saved the stata aitlUoas. White the cost ot living aad at gtrrarament has doubled, lUtaols kas aald ker bitts with decreased tax' atioa ahd bas a surplus. In Chicago, whera Thompson, who is trylag to get control at Springfield, through his man Len Small, tbe city ia baakrupt, millions have been squaadarad and the city can't borrow a dollar. The loss of the s^oon rev- eake was made up by the state tax¬ ing board allowing . Chicago seven mttllons increase In general taxes, tu make Up tor the toes In saloon rav-i enue—and Thompson's machine >. spent that money. Republicans, it is for you to choose: If you want disloyal, extra¬ vagant Thompson to rule Illinois for four years, then vote for Small. If yod wiah a patrtotto, economical ad- ipinistration for four years, vote the stat« administration ticket, heade.l ...KG. Oglesby.. Tha iaaua ls-«e Plata that none should misunder¬ stand. \ Anthony Dotierty. a well-known and highly respected citisen of Clay Oity. died at Decatur Wednesday moralng of tbis week at 4: SO o'clock. Mr. Doberty bad been on a visit to kis life-tyng friend. Qen. Jamee B. Smitb. at Sullivan. He seedied to be In excellent health and splriis during the day and at the time be k-^. tor a-ratiira ta hla hama^ala. aacauit. Oa raaqhlfig that eity he wss suddenly atriekaa with paralyst«i aad reuMrii ed nneoaaeioas until kk deal a. ' Ha waa aoeomaaated On nie i iitt py kla lilk-long (Haad, Aabor R. Cox, Of Xeaia, wbo notified his fam>ly and tamained with him, doing aU tbat oould be done to belp bim Tbe ramains will he InternMl a* Ctay City with funeral servines st 1-80 p. m. Frtday , i; Mr. Doherty has been t>rominen'. ^n husinees and tbe Maaotih: fraietBtay for msny yeara. His deat'i wit be de- ptorad by a bost of tr noiiv <a tbis vouH'.' .nnd throughou) thr. state. THB V. H. 8BNATOR8HIP We liave not said very much Con- oeraing the United States s^natonhlp raoa because our main purpose Waa to prarent tbe Thomps^n-Lundtn'>Cht- eago freebooten trom getting a strangle hold on the millions In the Illtaois state treasury. Thera are tbree candidates for Senator: Wm. B. McKlnley, on ^he State administration slate; Frai* L. Smith, on the Thompeon-bundin slate; B. M. Chiperfleld, running in- dependent of any slate. I>ersonaIly atl tbrae are good men^ and it is regretted by many warm per¬ sonal (riends of Mr. Smith that he I* freighted wtth tba odioas Thompson- Lundln crowd, whteh is very detri' mental to his candidacy down state Mr. McKlnley, as the directing genius of the Illinois Traction system, has built up a fine street railway system and has accumulated considerable wealth, but even his enemies have never charged that be obtained a dol¬ lar of his wealth wrongfully. Mr Chip^fleld Ib backed by many World War service men and natur¬ ally they should be expected to sup¬ port one ot their, number. Vat the real race is between McKlnley and Smith, and every Republican vote- that is really for McKintey but cast ftr Chiperfleld is indirectly a vote for Smith, so Republicans, except service men, shonid vote for McKln¬ ley, and thus make sura of Smith's defeat on account of his backera. Service - men shonid also reiMinner that McKlnley voted with them lo Congress for their bonus bill and has never voted against their interasts. ueUT..OOV. JOHN O. OOLKSBV. ncpubilean Candidate fer aoveriMr at lliineis. LABOR DAY PICNIC At the Flora opera bouse last Fri¬ day at 11 o'ctoek thera was held a Repablieaa meeting, whteh was ad¬ dressed by three speakera rapresent¬ ing the campaiga of the state'admin¬ istration forces. Julius Kline, of Chi¬ cago, mode the principal address and his dennaeiatlon of methods of the Tbompson-Lundln machine and its demoralising effect on Chicago made a deep Impression on tbe audience. Lieut. Greening followed with a short talk praising Oglesby as the man tor farmen tb believe tn, the Lieuten¬ ant betag a farmer and old-time ac¬ quaintance of Oglesby. Mr. Fitch did not make a real address owing to the noon hour. At 2:00 p. m. the Repiiblican wom¬ en met and listened to a very Inter¬ esting oddrass by Mra. Oeorge T. Palmer, of Springfield, who urged tho women to eabreUe their right of suf¬ frage and help down tbe menace ot Thompsoa misrule. The fint celebration of Labor Day in Flora wag held at the fair grounds on Monday. The event was a basket' dinaer, fallowed by addresses by a couple of maintenance of way men. A ball game was ployed between tbe B. and O. team and Noble, re¬ sulting In a 9 to 6 score in favor of Noble. < I Bxtra caches wera placed on reg¬ ular trains and by noon a big tot of maintenance of way men and their families had assembled from tbe north, west and south, tbe east not being represented on account of the poor train service. Headed by the Fairfield band, aasisted by some local ptayera, ttie ratlrpad men formed a parade a^ Trainmen's Halt and marched to the fair grounds. | Ftora business bouses closed at noon and tbera was a big crowd at> the grounds. Tbe shops here also closed for tbe day. FARM RESIDENCE BURNS TO OROI'ND The tarm rasldenc,e of Btvas Ool¬ den north ot Ftora was burned to tbe ground Moaday morning. The tiie was discovered in the root about 10:30 and was probably caused by a defective flue. Tbe nelghbora knd tfasasnby tried to fight tbe flames aad asve the bnlldtng but to no avail. Ttae root of^the buitldng fell in and most of tbe clothing of the tamily and the household furniture were soon consumed. Mr. Oolden carried an insurance of $600. The bouse, a five-room cot¬ tage, to be built at the present time, would cost in th^ neighborhood of 13.000. Tha unfortunate family have the sympathy of the entira community. L. R. C. ENTERTAINED OIL BXCITBMBNT BOOTIiBOOER CAUGHT WITH WHISKEY The discovery of the freak oil flow, In Seminary creek on the Jesse Cur-; ry farm, eotttkeast ot Flora, is cans- lag «nlta a good deal of interest I Sioag oil man. Op Tuesday C. O.j rnett and another oil aiaa tronl Bridgeport.'weae kera to Investigate. aad jell men (fom other towns have rlaliyd the ptace. H..F. Pixley bad a I ot the oil anatyied by a Bt. I a few daya ago and he a- "_.«, high .gradaaM, but, aally aot Maad tk vKkiag qnanU-' m. It mada a klgk test. Al>ant SOM aarsa/feaiti been leased aad [wbea «>«A mora a^e secttred, a aairBBfatloa^will ke organised and a> well driitad. i liOUISVnJUB MPUBIilCAN ' PITII0H4«B8 UNOTVPB Tke LontsrlUe Republican luis an- nouaeed tbat It kos purahased from tbe Mergonthaler Co. a new model L liaotype, the same kind ot typesetting macMaa now in use in the Record offiee. B^warer. owing to advance or- der*, the maehlne will not be shipped natn aboat Ifebrnary 1. Tliia wilt give tbe Rmabliean a good eqaip¬ ment to bandie tkeir bnali Tbe Ladiea' Reading Club beld its tint meeting after tbe summer vaca¬ tion at tbe home of Mrs. W. A. Karr Friday afternoon, Sept. 3. A targe attendance of the ctub membera was prasent, also one past member, Mn. Wilson; and two guests. Mn. Phillips., ot St. Louis, aad Mn. Loran Mitchell, of Pine Bluff. Ark. The president, Mn. Teck, made a very pleasing little Ulk, snd after tha resular bttslaaoe had been transacted the hostese served dainty rafrash- meau. PBARL HBRVBT SIMPSON. Cor. Sec. Mh<7AUIiBT EliBtTrBD STATB COMMANDBR Last Satnrday City Manhal Tat¬ man arrested Bert H. Bishop (or vio¬ lation of the Illinois seareb aad aelx- ara law aad he was uken betora Police Magistrate Finch, who placed him under bond of $600* to await tbe action ot the grand jury. He is also sabject to indictment by the federal graad Jury for violation of the fed¬ eral dry amendment. Uarahal Tatman confiscated the Whiskey found In his possession, amonatlng to 12 quarts, and it is now looked safely In the safe at the ctty kali for further evidence. Tha eity manhal has liad Bishop aadar survelllaaae tor soaie time, and ts to be ooagratulated oa hi* capture, BltATU OF UTTLE DAPOHTfeR FABaOERV INSTITUTE. MBVITNa Last we^, at LoalaviHe, the Ctay Coopty Famen' lastUnte held Ito an- naal meeting. Thera was an exceUeat Sregram i^rea.ibut no tarm exklblti. tefs wera takaa }a tha directlaa ot orgaalslBg a drtra tat a county tana adrtaor—aoMMtklag tkat Olay county aaeds, and we hope the progressive tarmata n^rar eeaae uatu they «ac- ceed. |Mpni«ANB klKDAT Last tUmOay afteraooa aa airplane advertioiat tka OfaMy tait, %w over Fhwa aad day oouaty aad' dnyped adrartwag awtter and .maa free tiekata, tta (atr is belaC held, this 'sraak. islbMBt Friday. At the state convention of the Amerlcaa Legion held In Chicago last week. Senior Vice Commander W. R. McCauley was elected sUte command-' er. Col. Jotm V. Ctinnin, of Chicago, waa etected senior vice commander. Mr. McCauley was a private in the World War. and formerly lived at Olney. | Harlan D. Friend wai appointed on tbe sUte executive committee, rep¬ resenting the 24th Congressional dis¬ trict. EBfTHRTAINS PtNB MISS OILL The kdme of Mn. Margaret Mill¬ er wah tbe scene of a gala occasion! Friday evening, vrhen a number of! yonng ladles gathered in honor of Miss Ruth Olll, a niece of Mra. Mttli-| ar. Dainty ratreshmenta wera served. I Those preaeat wera: tha guest of honor, Mias Ruth OitI, of Bast St.! U»aia; uytaa KdthiVn Bteketts.' Mary Cummtas. Bdna Tobe. Martha Uammaa, Dosotky Aadarson. Fraaeaa Mkilfard. Lois Bradford. Paatine M«yer, Mildred, Miller. WIIiL MOVE TO NBW HOMB ^Rolla Ollliland kos purahased the (liaffln property oa Bast North ave. f. r. Liue aeted as agent. Roae Cattierlne, three-year otd dangktar of Mr. and Mra. A. A. Day died at the home of her paranta in Newark. O.. Sept. S. 1»20. Her death was s great shock to her parents and ralatives. She was taken 111 Saturday morning and pass¬ ed away Sunday morning. The re¬ mains wera brought to Flora and funeral services were held from the St. Stephen church Tuesday morning. Interment in the Catholic cemetery! Those from out-of-town attending the funeral wera: Henry Oay of St. Laats. Mrs. Hugh Clark, of Bast St. Lonls; Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Day, of SKlngfteld, III., and the bereaved parants. BIRTHDAT PARTY Mra. B. Perry gave a pleasant ehil¬ drea's party Aug. 4. tn honor of her little daughter LucUle's tenth birth¬ day. A merry baach of Httla (oiks ¦aaat tke aftanooa playSMF Jolly gaaMs that cbtldraa delight In. Tke aoetsas served daiaty rafrasknentt o( lee cream and cake. Those prde^ aat to help MUs LncilU celebrate the day wara Zaia' Boyd, Igiacaee OUlt- Uwd, Ulllae Broeg, Rotli Statfard QIadTs Fraeaian. LuU Moaieal. Katk- leaa aad Utilaa Freeman, Chas. aad Rolta Hall. ,-.... RBCOMMBNDATION TO OLAY tXMJKTY REPUBUCANS Tbe Flora Reoord recommenda to the Clay county Republicans tbe fol¬ lowtag list of candidates to be voted for at the primary on Wednesday, September 16: For United SUtes Senator, WM. B. McKINLBY For Oovernor. JOHN O. OOLESBY For Lleutenant^fOovernor FRED B. STERLING For Secretary of State. LOUIS L. BMMERSON For State Auditor ANDREW RUSSEL For Attoraey Oeaeral. BDWARD J. BRUNDAOE For SUte Treasnrar, OBOROE B. KEYS Clerk of Supreme Court CHAS. W. VAIL Congressman-at-Large JOHN J. BROWN TO THB REPUBLICAN VOTERS OF CLAY CJOUNTY OROUP HAROWARR MEN MEET Tnesday membera of a group of the Hliaola Retail Hnrdwara Dealera As soeiation mat In Flora. At six o'clock a banquet was sarred In the M. B. church baaament, ttae aata being served by tke ekuM^ ladle, aid. After W. A. Karr kad raturaea tkaaks. 2( men sAt down to the feast of good things. Attar the tint eoune. J. Bowman called on L. M. Wood, seeratary ot tka OoMsmralal Clab, wka spoke a taw worda of welcome to tke vlsttiag aardwara awa. Tka prealdaat of tbi club. B. B. Allan, was odt at town. At doae ot tka baaqvM:, tke kard wara aaa «apkliad to tba messaalne room of tha Flnt National Bank, wkara tkey bald a baainess session until aear aldaight. Tke ont of towa guests wera: 8. M. Mites, service manager Nattoaat Re¬ tail Hardware Association. Argos. Ind.; H. R. Beatty. President Illinoia Retail Hnrdwara Assoctatlon. qt Clin¬ ton; L. R. Rlst. Sec., State Aaseela- tlon of Elgin; Ben. S, Murray, C. F. Wetland and C. 0. Hughes, of Otoey; Leslie Robb, B. H. Leack aad Wm. Sokop, of Xenta; W. O. Mnrrta.iot lagrakam; W. H. Banker, ot Clay City. Local hard wara men wera: Wm. Lindsey, S. C. James. W. A. Karr, J. Bowmai^. Other local men present wara: J. F. Bleb, 0. B. Hemphill. C. B- Oib¬ son, W. C, McCaully, Mayor Oeo. J. Price, N. B. Prince, R. B. Henry. B. M. Winks. F. L. Medley. L. M. Wood. THE SOLDIER CANDIOATE The Primary Election comes during the tarm of the Circuit Court, and I find it.impostsble for me to make a conu>leU canvass of the county in fhe'lnteresl' of my (lanStdacy fo'r the nomination of States' Atotrney, hence by this means invite your con¬ sideration of my claim for your Hup- port:—If I am nominated and elect¬ ed I promise tsithtui attantion to the duties of tbe office and that I will prosecute all vIoUtions of the Crim¬ inal Laws, brought to ray attention, without fear or favor. I have practiced law in this coun¬ ty tor seventeen years, was bora and raarad in this county, served two tarms as County Judge, and while I make no'claim to any au perlor quali¬ fication as a lawyer not virtues as a citizen, otber tlian those possessed by the ordinary mortal, I leave It for othen to say what that record has been. I retired from the race for States' Attorney,both six and four yean ago, for tbe sake of harmony, and now feel that my claim to the nomiiutioa is entitled to your candid considera¬ tion. In conclusion. I wish to say, tbat if I am nominated and elected I shall endeavor to so conduct myself and tbe ofitoe, tbat those who have sup¬ ported me, sliall have no Just cause tq regret tbeir action. A. N. TOLLIVER, Republican candidate for tbe Nomin¬ ation for State's Attoraey. PLORA SCHOOLS OPEN Two hundred and thirty-two pupils were enrolled In the Harter-Stanford TownshlpHlgh School, since its open¬ ing on' Wednesday, September 2. Tbla ts an increase over last year ol about 10 per cent, and shows tlie re¬ sult of efficient teaching. Miss Helen Oorton, tbe new In¬ structor la. English, oooias to this high sfboal from Orury College, at Sprlngtield, Mo. That it is the effort ot tbe trka- tees of tba sekool to make it oaq of the ranklag iastitutlons Is evideaeisd by the taeuUy engaged for the term of IfSd-lttl, which contains teach¬ en from many parts of this state, Missouri aad Indians. Tbe City schots opened the currant year with an enrollment upward of 600. and a banner educational year is looked for in Flora. (PollUeal Adv,erttsament i The Ckicago Tribune is baaoaaing the taet that hara an "ao saldien • oa Thompeon's. ticket.". In a long editorial It refers to Chicago's mayor and his war record In tdrms not eX' aetly eompllneotary, aad the burden ot th* complaint is that the Thomp¬ son ttcket Is a "gang ot siay-at- komes' 'and urges tkat tke oppoei' tion present some distinguished Illi¬ nois soldiera tor state otttoes. All of which ts well eaaagh as (ar as It goes, bnt It does hot go (ar enough. The Tribune surety know^i tbat Illinois already has a dlstln guished soldier In tbe field for office at the bands of tbe electorate of this state tn the penon of Cot. B. M, Chip- erfietd of Canton, who is a candidate for United States senator. Colonel Chiperfleld is the only ex-sarvlee man on any Illinois ticket so far an¬ nounced, and his splendid reoord both in the service overseas and in tbe state to give. He is the soldier can him to -the -fnror at tba ItapotilleaBs of tbe stata ^n the coming primary elections. If tbe Tribnae ts seeking a worthy soldier candidate It need go no farther. He ts found, and as to distinction, thera need be nk ques¬ tion. In tbe practice of taw. tn tbe state assembly, as congressman at targe and tn the service of his country with the Thirty-third division In atl Its splendid achievementa in France. Colonel Chiperfleld bos won the right to ask any gift In the power of his state to give. He la tbe soldier can¬ didate par excellence, able, eloquent, full of flra and seat for any cause be batteres to be Just and (or the wel¬ fare of the peopte and with a record behind bim as tawyer.statesman and soldier that any man and any state might well be proud to possess. The attention of the Tribune la called to Colonel B. M. Chiperfleld of Canton, tbe soldier candidate tor United States senator.—Canton (III.) Regis¬ ter, July It. 1820 WANTED A hundred yonng man and women to learn our Business Courses this school jrear. Tbey are aara of getting positions next May and June at sal¬ aries ranging from »gS.00 to 1126.00 per month. Our graduates did last spring and the demand is increasing every month. . Write or anroll at once. Oreeniaw's Business College, Flora, Illinois. A lOBRMr PARTY Quite A plaaiaat party was given Monday arenlac ot last week at tka home of Mtaa Kathryn Rlcketta. wkO was bostees. She Invited a number of girl frianda to come In and eajoy tka eveaing. ind nuke candy wirtcb thay gladly did. Miw Audrey Dur¬ land, of m,- BImo, was an out-of- town gnest. Mr. aad Mrs- A. J. Brawn. o( Oof- (ayrllle, KkK, ara in tha city the gnesta ot Ut. akd Mra. B. D. Haa¬ eoek oa Laeast aad Third streets SUNSHINE VISITOR On Wednesday night. September 1 Flora Lodge No. 161 was (avored with a visitor froa Buakketl, Brotk¬ er W. F. Smitk, coaaonty called SuBshlna Smitk, (or ka brings sun- skine wheraver be goes. He ts well versed tn Odd Fellowship in all o( Ita dKferant brancbes sad bas filled all the high offices in tbe subordin- Bte lodges and represented them in their Jurisdiction in the Orand Lodges of the order. He gave us a very (ine talk on the beauties of tbe order in ita Ritualistic work and tbe sacred ties of the Frateraal Brother¬ hood, and told ot some experiences out in tlia cold world wltkout frater¬ nal brotbera, and showed tbe differ¬ ence of making friteds, and recited a beadtifnl poem wblcb we all ap¬ preciated. The memben of ttae order wbo were not present miased a treat. lUlUIOAD NOTES I - a^ W. R. Tilton was a Sprtagtield rta- Itor last Tharaday.' Mn. Jennie Ottaora ot Bdgewaad, nslted with ber sitter, Mrs. F. H. Wrlgkt, from Moaday night uatll Wedaesday. Mr. and Hra. H. E. Btok and oon motarad,^ to Vinceanee last Frtday, wkota thay wltl visit ratattves a few daya. Mr. aad Mra. C. O. Buektngkaa wera ciUlad to Olney last Friday^ ata- tng ta tka deatk of Mr. Bueklagllak'a mothar. Jas. ftiekett. aad hmlly attended a family rettnton at Paaa tast yoar. Brack llaxvetl U on a racatlon and rtsttinir (riends la Sprtngtiald. The tollawiag railroad bays at¬ teaded eoart at Taytarrilto Taeaday; • Joka Murray. Robert lallniaer. B: Blotter, H, B. Buanall, H. B. Boyd aad R. A. wyatt. Whita switching at the ataes at Breaee loot wafck.CWbrdP SblaatieM . in some way gat oaugkt batwaea a aortag ear and a past la tka ataa tlpiila and reeeirad nana patofai' ia- Jurlas, a brokea collar .boae aad oth¬ er brubMS. Orarer will ba out of tke ••rrtee (Or aaarty a aioatb. Bd Clamaata paaed -airas hooM ia South Flora Baadi at 4 p a. Mr. ctaarti __,, an aarhtjrea ot the B. aad O to^abr- ena yaara, and waa ataOUlkad br tti ot kla usoetates. Ha iMb a aanbar ot tka Mataalc ordar^uKll.W. a( A. Bd WlU ba greatly itmtt amme tka rauad boaae boys, «» ka wSkaf a ebaartui dtapaaitioa , and at'Waya aet ua with a oalle. Mn. B. a. MlUlgan and xhltdrsa retaraed Bttaday (raar^ ~ lad., where sbe bad ' lag to Mriaas litaeos Mr. aad Mra. L, daughtan.- Misaaa Kalbmi, raturaad last Friday, wkera . riaHtag friends and past two weeks. .;(//., Lawranoa Blotter ralaNMNl baaa Saturday (rom BtoominmMtf Xtaw renea bas been working lai^la imcla the past three months liMna o( tka ftaeat (arms in Ittinols. i'/M Ura. S. A. Reed and fllMMan wara Sunday rlsitor. In Sprlngi, J. Bowman has on exklbilftke talt- •OWB tn easily . tallaet d ataag ia vacant est eora aad brown c Clay county. Someoaa plaea on aakibtt sobm . weeds growp in Itliaou , many o( oar streeta aifi "ISMK^nialtar Chas^'J^kes and wtte motored to Bloomtagten last week. Ckarley soys Bloomingtoa ts tbe garden spot ot Illiaots. Cor- root W0 Bftv Conductor F. H. Jaanhiga kaa tak- -- a ragntar run aa aaat aAt imb shop, tayorer, aeeeasttatlac bttfgwr- ing to Waahiagtoa. Ha aa4 %k Jeaataga departed Honday tor tbafr naw hoae. Mra. J. w. Wilderaon speat tka week-ead visiting har Wstar. Mta. Jennie Oillaora, at Bdcewomt. Hugk Lewis, ot Pana, wsa a Sua- da# tialtwr la Flara., . Mr. aad Mrs. Okas. Shroyer wera week-end rUitora la Sprtngfletd with their son. Peart and {amiljf. Mr. and Mrs. L. F. De Board aad children, of Norris City aiDtorad to Ftora Sunday. Mr. Oe'Board is a fonqsr B. and O. breiceman. Mr. and Mra. Oaylon Oibson and children, of Sandoval, spent Sunday In Flora with Mrs. Oibson's parants, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ward. Oeneral foreman O. L. Booth waa a Sunday visitor in St. Louts. TO THE REPUBLICAN WOMBN OF THB aUND I^ISTRICT RREL IS MADE LOCAL b. and O. YARDMASTBR F. T. Reel, former yardmaster for the 'Baltimore and Ohio at Vin¬ cennes. Ind., has been promoted to the yardmastership of tbe Spring¬ field yards of the B. and O. railroad. - The appointment was effective the firat of the present month aad Mr. Reel has Just arrived to take charge of bla ottiee at Second and Madison streets. 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EXETER — With a young roster and a rash of injuries, the Portsmouth High School boys hockey team has taken its share of lumps this season.
With his team now healthy and experienced, coach Al Brandano believes the Clippers are hitting their peak at the right time.
"We had to change our system halfway through the season," Brandano said. "We're skating here with two lines and they can skate with anybody. We're really excited."
Portsmouth improved to 4-10 in Division III with Tuesday's 6-3 victory over Manchester West at The Rinks at Exeter. Junior Aaron Rancourt netted a hat trick to lead the Clippers, who held a 40-14 edge in shots on goal against West (2-12).
"Everyone was clicking on all cylinders," Rancourt said. "We've improved our pace of play and stepped up our strength and conditioning. We've just got to adapt to each team differently and adapt through the course of the game."
Rancourt has played on the top scoring line with freshmen Jack Alden and Luke LaCroce this season. Another freshman, Jack Spitzer, is playing on the top defensive line.
The Clippers were held scoreless in the first period despite outshooting the Blue Knights, 14-5. Alden, assisted by Rancourt and LaCroce, got the Clippers on the board with 13:38 left in the second when he banked home a shot in front of the net.
Alden said the team's five freshmen have grown a lot during the season.
"It's been a great experience playing for the high school and we've come a long way from being a little slow-paced at the beginning," Alden said. "We've started to move the puck well, we've worked hard at practice and it's all starting to come together."
Rancourt's first goal gave the Clippers a 2-0 lead with 6:13 left in the second on assists by Brodie Sandquist and Alden. West's Joey Cronin later sliced Portsmouth's lead to 2-1 when he beat Portsmouth goaltender Brady Marchewka (11 saves) on a breakaway.
The Clippers scored the first three goals of the third period to seal the victory. Rancourt got things started by beating West goalie Josh Gagne (34 saves) just 53 seconds into the period. Freshman Justin Lent scored his first career goal, assisted by Reed Williamson and Cody Mallory, and Rancourt completed his hat trick to make it 5-1 with 7:15 left.
"(Portsmouth) played a good game," West coach Matt Thompson said. "They outplayed us. I think our team gradually died as the game went along."
Zach Allard and Noah Cote scored to slice the West deficit to 5-3 late in the game, but the Clippers' Mallory netted the final goal with 46 seconds left.
Sandquist, Portsmouth's senior captain, feels the team has learned a lot through adversity.
"We have our ups and our downs," Sandquist said. "It's tough being the only senior, but I do what I can to help out. I've definitely seen the improvement, especially from the freshmen."
Portsmouth is currently eighth in the Division III standings. It will continue its playoff push when it hosts Laconia/Winnisquam (3-10) on Thursday at Phillips Exeter Academy.
"These guys have battled," Brandano said. "They show discipline and courage every time and never quit. They come in with a great attitude."

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Is the Sun Setting on Sun Microsystems?
After several months of turmoil, things came to a head at Sun Microsystems with the unpleasant pre-holiday news that around 6,000 people, 15 percent to 18 percent of its workforce, will be cut in a restructuring plan that the firm hoped would save $700 million to $800 million annually.Is the company taking steps to cut its way to profitability and prominence, or is it just looking for a graceful exit -- and a friendly buyer?
The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company declined to comment to InternetNews.com on the specifics of the cuts, such as where they will come and what divisions may be pared down or eliminated.
This has led to inevitable speculation of Sun being bought, either whole or in pieces. Southeastern Asset Management, one of Sun's largest shareholders, has been increasing its holdings and changed its ownership status to one more actively involved in the company's affairs.
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Sun's primary problem has long been attributed to the fact it sells a proprietary RISC chip when the market is moving rapidly to the x86 platform. It is probably all the more frustrating for Sun, as it has a very powerful offering in its UltraSPARC servers, which can outperform x86-based servers, but the last few quarter show fewer and fewer customers are buying.
Sun has offered both AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon-based servers for more than a few years, but the x86 business is only a fraction of its overall sales, and its growth is nowhere near enough to offset losses in SPARC sales.
But it's not just rejection of UltraSPARC, Sun has failed to execute when it needed to, such as the slow move to build on international markets. Sun is heavily dependent on the U.S. market, and the U.S. economy is under severe strain this year. Josh Farina, an analyst with Technology Business Research, said Sun has faltered in its global execution.
"They launched some teams to focus on emerging markets this year, but they are late to it," he told InternetNews.com. "HP and IBM have been in those markets for years and are well entrenched, and they're not going to give that up."
Cutting Its Way to Success?
So can Sun cut its way to success? Yes, says Steven O'Grady, analyst with Redmonk, if it's careful. "If the number were 30 or 40 or 50 percent, then certainly I think the question of being able to adequately carry its products forward would be legitimate, but 18 percent seems achievable to me.
It, as always, depends on where the cuts come from, and what the product impacts are," he said.
Farina said if Sun makes it through 2009, it could be profitable by 2010 even with flat revenue. "I think the cuts are good for Sun, because Sun is shifting more toward being a software company. I think they need to pull back some of the R&D on the hardware side if their focus is going to be software going forward. But at the end of the day, Sun has to do better at execution and growing revenue. You can't keep cutting operations," he said.
CEO Jonathan Schwartz has undertaken a very aggressive software strategy since taking the reigns in 2006, culminating with the $1 billion purchase of MySQL. But that at, and other moves reflecting Sun's embrace of open source software, does not appear to be paying off as yet, nor is making its software available on other platforms than SPARC.
"The story with open source is they get access to a pool of prospective customers they couldn't talk to before, but the benefits from open sourcing and optimizing their software to run on other vendors' hardware isn't materializing.," said Farina.
And at least one analyst thinks splitting the company into its hardware and software halves wouldn't be smart. "Speaking from a strategic perspective as opposed to a financial markets view, I'd argue against it," said O'Grady. "Cloud computing is an architectural approach that naturally conflates those two businesses, and my belief is that Sun needs to be a significant player in that market, and therefore needs assets from both sides to be competitive."
Both O'Grady and Farina argue Sun needs more time, a luxury it might have in a strong economy but one that is not available in the current climate.
Any Takers?
Fujitsu is an obvious choice, given its long hardware partnership with Sun. After that, the situation gets murky. IBM has nearly taken over the Java community from Sun with its Eclipse project, but IBM doesn't need another RISC processor when it has the POWER chip.
Likewise, HP might like a few parts of Sun but is getting rid of its own RISC processor, the PA-RISC, and migrating to Itanium. Dell has no use for SPARC and does not like large acquisitions. EMC could certainly use Sun's storage business, MySQL and perhaps even some elements of the server and Solaris operating system, but does EMC want to own Java?
"Pick a major vendor: There would be assets of interest for each," O'Grady said. But he suspects the sale would have to be as a whole, because "they won't want to be strip mined."
So is the sun setting on Sun? It seems so, and neither analyst was happy to acknowledge this about one of the Silicon Valley's original names.
"As for whether it is a firm in decline, at present the finances certainly indicate that, but with good execution and time that trend can certainly be reversed," said O'Grady.
"I see them as being on the decline," Farina said. "With the uncertainty surrounding Sun's future, if I'm a customer, I want to go with a company I know is going to be there for many years."
"So my suspicion is customers will go with IBM or HP. They have a strong roadmap and customers know they will be around. It will be more of a challenge for Sun to win that business."
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RICHMOND, Va. — Abortion-rights advocates have been unable to halt the "Choose Life" license plate variations in nearly two-dozen states, so now they're working to balance the bumper debate.
Activists are pushing a "Trust Women/Protect Choice" license plate in Virginia, which would become only the fourth state to offer a pro-choice plate and the first to require legislative approval for it. Supporters have threatened to sue if lawmakers don't give drivers the option.
"We really don't feel like a license plate is the place to be promoting a political agenda," said Tarina Keene, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia. "However, the pro-choice community feels like they're being taken on by the anti-choice side with this license plate, and we feel like we need to get involved."
Opponents, including the state's attorney general and governor, say they oppose diverting money from plate fees to Planned Parenthood offices — not necessarily the plates themselves.
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A state Senate committee heard testimony on the bill Thursday and could vote on it this week. The full legislature's approval and the governor's signature are needed for the plates to be sold.
Last year, Virginia became the 23rd state to approve the "Choose Life" plate. The plates should be on the roads in Massachusetts, Delaware and North Dakota by the end of March, and efforts are under way in a dozen other states to get them approved, said Russ Amerling, a coordinator for the Florida-based Choose Life, Inc., which promotes the plates.
Nationwide, more than 520,000 of the plates have been sold since 2000, raising more than $11 million for anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers, adoption services and maternity homes.
Those on the other side of the debate have yet to mount a coordinated response. Even in states where the plate is offered, it hasn't sold well, though at least 400 people have signed up to buy the pro-choice plates in Virginia.
Hawaii was first with a "Respect Choice" decal for plates in 2003, but lack of interest is threatening to halt its availability. A "Pro-family, Pro-choice" plate is available in Montana, and Pennsylvania has a Planned Parenthood labeled plate. However, only 22 of those are active.
Those states don't require the legislature to sign off — the plates are handled administratively and can be sold as long as they meet certain requirements.
Money to Planned Parenthood
Virginia's proposed plate would generate money for the state's eight Planned Parenthood health centers, which provide free pregnancy tests, contraception, gynecological exams, cancer screenings and other services for about 30,000 people each year.
That is likely to be a source of contention for Republicans, who control the House and in recent years have stripped the organization of state funding other than Medicaid reimbursements because Planned Parenthood provides abortions. The organization says the money from any license plate sales — $15 per plate after the first 1,000 are sold — would not be used for abortions.
"I expect that's the hurdle," said Republican Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, who led the fight against the organization as a legislator. "It isn't the plate, it's where the money goes."
However, supporters say Virginia has no choice but to allow a pro-choice plate after it offered up a "Choose Life" plate — because doing otherwise would be unconstitutional.
The Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has twice ruled the government cannot unreasonably censor or favor one viewpoint on specialty plates because they are a public forum.
'Legal morass'
"The General Assembly has stepped into a legal morass now," said Sen. Janet Howell, who is sponsoring one of two bills to establish the plate. "You can't have just one point of view represented on license plates. You have to have both."
Kent Willis, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia, said the organization likely will sue if the state blocks the pro-choice plate, calling it a First Amendment issue.
"If the opposite were occurring — a pro-choice plate having passed and an anti-choice plate being considered — we would make the same legal argument in favor of the anti-choice plate," he said.
Cuccinelli said he was prepared to defend the state if lawmakers strike down the plate. Both he and Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell said lawmakers could avoid a clash by ensuring the bill doesn't allocate any money from plate sales to Planned Parenthood.
Virginia has more than 200 specialty license plates celebrating everything from sports teams to Jimmy Buffett fans. About 30 of those divert funds to nonprofit groups, and each costs $25 apiece.
Supporters say it's only fair that money from the plates goes to Planned Parenthood, since funds from the "Choose Life" plates in Virginia and numerous other states go to opposing groups.
The ACLU said Virginia and other states could avoid the problem by handing over approval of the plates to the Department of Motor Vehicles or some other administrative agency, as 21 have.
"This is one time lawmakers need to set aside their views on reproductive rights and let the First Amendment be their guide," Willis said. "If they can do that, the pro-choice license plate will be easily approved. If not, we're undoubtedly headed to court."
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By Chris Wright
Now that's a flag
On Thursday, after nigh-on seven years of planning, fans of Uruguayan side Nacional finally realised their destiny and set a new world record for the biggest flag ever unfurled at a sporting event when they broke out an absolute monster during their Copa Libertadores tie against Mexican club Toluca.
The Nacional flag was exactly 600 metres (656 yards) in length and 50 metres (54 yards) high, with the white, red and blue banner swamping almost three quarters of the club's 25,000-capacity Parque Central stadium in Montevideo.
According to the Nacional supporters website, over 5,000 fans assisted in making the flag – which was first mooted in 2006 and took over a year and a half to make and print – a reality, with the club also contributing toward the cost.
Here it is in all its glory…
Nacional then went on to beat Toluca 4-0 so 'win, win'!
Kind of puts this kind of A4-sized crap to shame…
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With us today is Paul Henderson, vice president of device test at Wind River.
Q: Paul, there are few better examples of real-time, embedded systems these days than a car. Unfortunately, it is starting to look like car-manufacturer Toyota's problem might have something do with software testing. So my question is this: Is testing real-time, embedded software like that in my Toyota Corolla different than, say, testing the software I use to gain access to the Internet?
A: There are several key differences between embedded software and that from desktop or Internet software that makes embedded testing challenging, including:
Fewer standards: Unlike the Internet world where custom applications are based on layers of standardized software, the embedded world has fewer standards. Often embedded applications are built from scratch. Even embedded operating systems have historically been custom-built in many industries. Companies tend to leverage commercial operating systems such as VxWorks or Linux and their associated middleware to save time in development and better leverage the work of others.
Greater processor variety: The dominance of Intel processors and the Windows operating system on the desktop has provided a fairly stable platform for app-builders, while the world of embedded devices is more complex. A greater number of processor types, compilers, and operating systems are in use across industries. In addition, with leaders moving to multicore processors and hypervisor-based architectures that can run multiple operating systems within the same device, the testing job is both diverse and highly complex.
Real-time constraints: While performance is important for Internet applications, timing is measured in seconds. In real-time systems, however, the timing is measured in milliseconds or microseconds. When embedded software is assembled and run at full speed on the actual device, new defects may surface as multiple processes or activities compete for the same resource. For example, you would not want a call to be dropped just because a text message arrived on your phone. These real-time interactions are difficult to test in every possible combination of events. The issues behind Toyota's recent troubles are not known. However, if the issue lies in software, there are a number of complex real-time process interaction scenarios possible.
Difficulty accessing internals at runtime: Embedded devices are like turtle shells – tough to get past the exterior to gain knowledge of the animal inside. Historically, device testers haven't had the luxury of easy-to-run, easy-to-observe and easy-to-interpret tests of software releases. They had to turn on and run the device while observing it from outside the "turtle shell." Testers and developers had only post facto analysis of the test case results with which to piece together what happened, what went wrong and why. This makes it difficult to observe and catch faults that may only occur internally and infrequently.
Q: Major software quality problems seem to be occurring with increasing frequency across more industries today -- and they are definitely happening more frequently in the embedded industry. What's going on?
A: I see several industry trends that are escalating the frequency and severity of software quality problems across the embedded industry, including:
- Skyrocketing software content: Devices currently have much more software inside that has to be tested, roughly doubling every two years.
- Architectural complexity: Rare is the old fixed-function device; the new norm is 32- and 64-bit architecture and multi-processors (and looking ahead, multi-core) running powerful operating systems, in addition to advanced user interfaces and networking.
- Compressed delivery schedules: Product development and test teams are being forced to deliver far more complex products in less time than ever before. Testing significantly more complex software in the same or less time can result in missed defects.
Q: Is part of the problem that companies seem to think at the outset that software testing costs too much?
A: Companies are generally aware that testing could comprise a considerable share of the total cost of a project, sometimes as much as 30-50%. They are also conscious that their device will never be absolutely bug free and are faced with a series of tradeoffs about how much they can spend and what level of bugs will be considered acceptable.
In an attempt to lower costs, during the past decade, many companies have moved testing overseas. However, companies are finding that simply lowering the cost of labor is not enough. It's becoming clearer that traditional testing tools and methodologies have become outdated. Due to the increasingly complex nature of embedded devices, a linear approach to dealing with geometric or even exponential increases in complexity is not going to be enough. People are still using old tools to do a new job, however, they "can't get there from here." Many are searching for a better, smarter way to handle device software testing today.
Q: Are the testing tools for real-time embedded systems up to the job?
A: A variety of tools are currently used for different test functions. Many tools today are designed for developers (e.g. unit testing tools, profilers, static / dynamic analysis) and are quite good. Companies need to focus on getting their developers to actually use them consistently. However, for system testing, also known as integration testing or functional testing, we find that existing tools are not good enough. Many companies build their own tools or use open source tools that have limited features. Most of these have been focused on traditional "black box" testing, which exercises and observes the device from the outside.
Wind River is investing in "white box" integration testing tools that offer testers and their managers real-time visibility into the device under test so they can make better decisions about quality status and focus their time and resources on what really needs testing. We have a new product, Wind River Test Management, which helps with this runtime test optimization. These tools are new and complementary to existing processes, and will enable teams to deal more effectively with device complexity.
Q: Assuming the industry can get a handle on software testing and quality, what's the next big obstacle for companies like Toyota?
A: I can't speak specifically to Toyota's situation. However, in general, many leading companies are looking to new iterative development methodologies such as Agile testing which use more frequent cycles to obtain earlier feedback on how they are doing with features and quality. These iterative methods differ from more traditional "waterfall" or "V model" methods, where testing was left until the end of the cycle.
An obstacle for embedded systems companies using Agile may be that the development and testing groups have historically been separate. They are often geographically dispersed with the test group in China or India. The testing group has great difficulty in understanding what code is changed or new in the daily or weekly interim releases that they need to test. Also, since they want to test on the device itself to really verify the software, it's very hard to know with black box techniques how thorough their testing is or if the device is really responding correctly. This is especially true for new complex architectures that have many asynchronous processes controlling multiple aspects of the device; increasingly, test groups are performing these on separate processors or multiple cores to reduce cost and raise performance.
In both of these areas, the white box testing tools from Wind River are viewed as a key enabler. These tools can report to Agile testers specifically what code is changed and can even recommend what tests to re-run to verify changes. They can also identify holes in test suites and probe the device at runtime to inject simulated faults and assure proper handling, or gather performance, timing and "forensic" data. This is done by better monitoring the device under test at runtime and better tracking what is actually being tested, and conversely, what has not been tested.
This embedded device integration testing requires continuous collaboration and will be an area of increasing importance that bridges both the development and test function. Implementing the new methodologies and weaving them into corporate cultures can also be a challenge, but it's far less expensive than convincing customers to come back after a big stumble relating to delivery product quality or safety problems.


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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A former western Missouri mayor who admitted setting up a phony charity is going to prison for using $35,000 in donations for his own expenses.
The U.S. Attorney's office says 51-year-old Stephen Dennis, of Grandview, was sentenced Monday to a year and a day in federal prison without parole. He pleaded guilty to wire fraud in February, a month after he resigned as Grandview's mayor.
Dennis created a corporation called Matters of the Heart, which he described as a nonprofit charitable organization to serve poor people. He admitted in his plea that he solicited donations and accepted two checks totaling $35,000 from International House of Prayer, also based in Grandview.
Prosecutors said Dennis used the donations for his own benefit, including his family's living expenses, rather than for any charitable purpose.


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6-month survival rates for two expensive treatments were estimated to be 84 percent and 64 percent, respectively.
LAS VEGAS — FRIDAY, Dec. 7, 2012 (MedPage Today) — The oral BRAF inhibitor vemurafenib (Zelboraf) increased overall and progression-free survival in patients with metastatic melanoma, but the cost may not justify its use in a state Medicaid program, giving rise to many ethical questions, a budget impact analysis suggested.
Assuming an incidence of 11 cases of metastatic melanoma in the MassHealth program over 1 year, conventional treatment with dacarbazine would cost $31,873 per year, whereas a year of treatment with that agent plus vemurafenib would carry a price tag of $314,347, according to Amber King, who is a PharmD student at Northeastern University in Boston.
"Given the inexorable progression of late-stage melanoma, these findings have important ethical implications, such as what price do you put on one patient's life and how treatment decisions are made," King told MedPage Today during a poster presentation at the midyear clinical symposium of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists.
During 2012, more than 75,000 Americans were expected to be diagnosed with melanoma, with 4 percent developing poor-prognosis metastatic disease.
In Massachusetts, an estimated 2,190 cases were expected in 2012.
Before the approval of vemurafenib in 2011 for patients whose tumors have BRAF mutations, the sole approved agent for metastatic melanoma was dacarbazine, but response rates have been reported at only 7 percent to 12 percent with this agent.
In their analysis, King and colleagues first summarized the known clinical efficacy data, and found that in a phase III study, median progression-free survival was 5.3 months for vemurafenib compared with 1.6 months with dacarbazine.
Overall 6-month survival rates for the two treatments were 84 percent and 64 percent, respectively.
In their budget impact analysis for the 1.3 million patients enrolled in MassHealth over a 1-year period, with progression-free survival of 5.3 months, the base-case scenario estimate was an additional $9,995 per month for each patient treated with vemurafenib.
In contrast, a month of treatment with dacarbazine would cost $1,811 per person.
In a favorable-case scenario, which also factored in efficacy and low costs associated with adverse events and oral administration for vemurafenib, the first year of treatment would cost a projected $536,139, compared with $6,559 with dacarbazine.
Arguing in favor of the use of vemurafenib were factors such as an increase in patient self-sufficiency, decreased institutional resource use, and improved quality of life, according to King.
But she noted that this analysis was limited by a paucity of long-term data, and advised that further experience will be needed to better clarify the clinical and economic implications of the use of vemurafenib.
Given the budget constraints facing MassHealth, stakeholders including physicians, policy-makers, and patients need to carefully consider these implications, King noted. "There will be lots of conflicts and questions."


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Super Bowl in New Orleans? Expect to talk about food.
If there are concession stands in the New Orleans convention center, no one in the media center has ever found them. That's because there has been a steady stream of Cajun and creole cooking available from the first day the media arrived. Bill Coates talked with the man who was responsible for much of it.
Former Cowboys DT Tony Casillas on the closing Cowboys window.
Earlier this week, Dallas Cowboys outside linebacker DeMarcus Ware opined that the "window is closing" on the Cowboys' chances of getting to the Super Bowl with its current core group of players. Former Cowboys defensive tackle and owner of two Dallas Cowboys Super Bowl rings Tony Casillas says that the window in all likelihood has already closed.
Impressionist Frank Caliendo brings an All-Star crowd on Radio Row.
When you can interview John Madden, Charles Barkley, President George W. Bush and Jon Gruden all in a single sitting, you've done something. That's exactly what happens when comedian and impressionist Frank Caliendo stops by your position on Radio Row.
Warren Moon talks with Bill Coates about head trauma.
Hall of Fame quarterback Warren Moon suffered numerous concussions during his career in the NFL, which included ten seasons for the Houston Oilers. Warren sat down with Bill Coates on Radio Row to talk about head injuries as well as the evolution of NFL quarterbacks.
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Not everyone comes to a Super Bowl city for the football game. In fact, those that attend the game itself are in the minority. Here are images from New Orleans, site of Super Bowl XLVII, having nothing to do with football.
Troy Aikman joins Bill Coates on Radio Row.
Hall of Fame Dallas Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman joined Bill Coates on Radio Row at Super Bowl XLVII to talk about combating counterfeit NFL game tickets, the Dallas Cowboys, the status of Cowboys head coach Jason Garrett and the prospect of former teammates Charles Haley and Larry Allen being inducted into the NFL Football Pro Hall of Fame.
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Google today released some good news for developers by slashing the charges that apply to the use of the Google Maps API.
The API charges only apply to the top 0.35% of sites regularly exceeding the published limits of 25,000 map loads every day for 90 consecutive days. These charges have now been lowered from $4 per 1,000 map loads to 50¢ per 1,000 map loads.
Google has also eliminated the previous distinction between Styled Maps and regular unstyled maps. The same usage limits and pricing now apply to applications using Styled Maps and the default Google Maps style.
The Google Maps API charges will still not apply to the vast majority of Google Maps API users. If your map does take off and starts to exceed the free 25,000 map loads a day Google will contact you to discuss your options. Your map will not stop working due to a sudden surge in popularity.
Non-profit organisations also remain unaffected by the Maps API usage limits and can apply for a free Maps API for Business license through the Google Earth Outreach grants program.
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PG&E and Ausra Announce 177 Megawatt Solar Thermal Power Agreement
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 5 /-- Pacific Gas and Electric Company today announced that it has entered into a 177 megawatt solar thermal power purchasing agreement with Ausra Inc. The project, to be located in central California, is being developed by Ausra.
"Today's agreement between PG&E and Ausra highlights how clean energy will create jobs in California while delivering a reliable source of renewable energy," said Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. "I'm pleased to see California companies rising to the challenge of AB 32, California's historic initiative to reduce carbon emissions and combat climate change. Clearly, California continues to lead the nation in clean energy research, development and generation."
The plant, to be located in San Luis Obispo County, Calif., is expected to begin generating power in 2010. Ausra has filed its Application for Certification for this plant with the California Energy Commission, which must grant approval before construction begins.
"Solar thermal technology provides our customers with a reliable source of clean renewable energy that is ideally suited to meet peak energy loads," said Fong Wan, vice president of energy procurement, PG&E. "By partnering with Ausra, we are taking another significant step in providing our customers with some of the cleanest energy in the nation."
Ausra projects that the power plant will create over 350 skilled jobs on-site during construction, and an additional 100 permanent jobs in the area. The plant will burn no fuel, use minimal water, and have no air or water emissions. At 177 megawatts of capacity, the project will use only one square mile (640 acres) of land due to the exceptional area efficiency of Ausra's collector technology.
"This 177-megawatt plant is the first manifestation of Ausra and PG&E's shared vision of competitively priced, large-scale solar electric power," said Glen Davis, executive vice president and chief commercial officer of Ausra. "We're excited to be partnering with PG&E to deliver clean power at hours of peak demand."
Ausra's new Compact Linear Fresnel Reflector (CLFR) solar technology utilizes the heat from the sun's rays to create steam. Solar collectors boil water at high temperatures to power steam turbine generators, in much the same way as traditional fossil-fuel power plants, but without use of fuels or emissions.
At the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting in September, PG&E and Ausra announced separate commitments to build and purchase 1,000 MW of solar thermal power over the next five years.
The agreement filed today with the California Public Utilities Commission is the latest example of PG&E's commitment to solar thermal technology. PG&E currently has 553 MW of solar thermal power under contract and is seeking regulatory approval of these purchasing agreements.
PG&E's solar thermal commitments are part of the company's broader renewable energy portfolio. PG&E currently supplies 12 percent of its energy from qualifying renewable sources under California's Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) program. PG&E continues to aggressively add renewable electric power resources to its supply and is on target to exceed 20 percent under contract or delivered by 2010. On average, more than 50 percent of the energy PG&E delivers to its customers comes from generating sources that emit no carbon dioxide, providing among the cleanest energy in the nation.
California's RPS Program requires each utility to increase its procurement of eligible renewable generating resources by one percent of load per year to achieve a 20 percent renewables goal by 2010. The RPS Program was passed by the Legislature and is managed by California's Public Utilities Commission and Energy Commission.
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One thing I have learned in my decades of investing is that very few sure bets present themselves in any given year -- except going with the current SEC champion against any Midwestern team for college football's BCS title at a neutral field. That said, every dog eventually has its day. Stocks and sectors that have underperformed for months or years can be the strongest performers in the months and years ahead. Good examples of this are banks and homebuilders. Both sectors were lousy investments for years but turned around in 2012 to be among the best market performers over the past 12 months.
The steel sector and the companies that supply the industry have underperformed the overall market significantly since late spring. Concerns about a slowdown of worldwide growth, poor pricing, overcapacity and a rough patch in the Chinese economy all contributed to a decline in the sector. Skies seem to be brightening, however, with rising prices and more certainty around demand from China. The sector has started to bounce back. Here are two cheap stocks that could perform well if the sector continues to rebound.
AK Steel (AKS) produces flat-rolled carbon, stainless and electrical steels and tubular products in the U.S. and internationally. Four reasons AKS is a good speculative play at under $5 a share:
- This is one of the more leveraged plays within the industry. The stock was trading north of $16 a share less than a year and a half ago. It should benefit more than most other plays if steel pricing continues to improve. The company recently increased its spot market base price of carbon flat-rolled steel products by $30 per ton.
- The company is tracking to an approximate $0.60 per share loss in 2012, but analysts currently having the firm bouncing back in 2013 to post a profit.
- Insiders have not sold any shares in more than a year, and several stepped up to make new purchases in late November.
- Goldman Sachs, Longbow, Credit Suisse and Dahlman Rose have all upgraded their ratings on the shares of AK Steel over the past four months. The company has also beat earnings estimates each of the last two quarters.
Cliffs Natural Resources (CLF) produces iron ore pellets, fines and lump ore, as well as metallurgical coal. Four reasons CLF has long term value at $38 a share:
- The stock is priced at just 85% of book value and less than 6x trailing earnings.
- Cliff Natural Resources currently pays a dividend of more than 6%. Insiders have also been net buyers of the stock over the past year and at much higher prices.
- The stock is selling near the bottom of its five-year valuation ranged based on price/earnings, price/book, price/sales and price/cash flow ratios.
- Consensus earnings estimates have not reflected the significant increase in iron ore prices in recent months. This should be a catalyst in the weeks ahead.
Due the volatility of the sector, its vulnerability to a slowdown in worldwide economic growth and high debt loads, I play this kind of cyclical sector by buying long-term options. If the sector does not rebound as expected, I control my losses. If the sector continues to improve, the options can generate a significant payday. Other cyclical plays, like airlines, would also be good candidates for this risk/reward strategy.


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Steelers don't seem fearful of the dreaded 0-2 start
Very few NFL teams go to playoffs after losing first two games
The Pittsburgh Steelers will try to avoid an 0-2 start on Sunday -- something that seemed highly unlikely just two weeks ago and often spells doom for a team's playoff chances.
Losing their first two games is something that the Steelers have never done in any season during the era of Ben Roethlisberger at quarterback.
"The Super Bowl is not won or lost last week, and probably not won or lost this week, and it becomes a little bit harder with every loss, but we are just going to come out and play good football and keep trying to get better," Roethlisberger said.
NFL history shows that an 0-2 start is tough to overcome. Since 1990, only about 15 percent of all teams that lost their first two games went on to qualify for the postseason.
The good news is the Steelers are one of those teams. In 2002, Coach Bill Cowher replaced Kordell Stewart with Tommy Maddox at quarterback and Pittsburgh rallied to win the AFC North with a 10-5-1 record.
Sunday's opponent, the New York Jets, will come into Heinz Field with confidence after blowing out Buffalo in Week 1. So this game no longer seems a safe bet for Pittsburgh, like it did when the Jets were stumbling through the preseason amid a circus atmosphere.
"It seems like that's how people look at us," Jets coach Rex Ryan said. "I was like, 'You can think that all you want, but we see something different.' I do, and I know this football team does. When I said our opponents will take us seriously, I promise you that. And, they will."
Sunday will also see two big names return to Pittsburgh with the Jets: cornerback Darrelle Revis, a former star at Aliquippa High School and Pitt, and wide receiver Santonio Holmes, who caught the winning touchdown in Super Bowl XLIII.
Win or lose, the Steelers say their fortunes for the rest of the season will not fall on the outcome of this one game.
"I think it's because of the simple fact you want to win every time you are out there, not because it's 0-2 and it's the end of the world," wide receiver Mike Wallace said. "I think it's more so because we always want to win. That is the type of team we are. We are not a losing team. We don't take well to losing."


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OIF Summary, Dec. 9, 2009: Forces in Iraq Nab 8, Including Terrorist Leader
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 9, 2009 -- A senior leader of the Promised Day Brigade terrorist group was among eight people Iraqi security forces arrested in three operations today, military officials reported.
Iraqi forces and U.S. advisors searched homes in northern Baghdad for the senior leader, a suspect in weapons distribution and funding to Promised Day Brigade groups for attacks on civilians and security forces throughout the Iraqi capital. The man is believed to have ties to Promised Day Brigade leaders operating from safe havens in Iran.
Following preliminary questioning and investigating evidence at the scene, Iraqi forces identified and arrested the senior leader without incident.
In another operation today, Iraqi forces and U.S. advisors searched two homes in a rural area southwest of Baghdad for an alleged al-Qaida in Iraq member believed to be assisting senior leaders of the terrorist network in staging vehicle-borne bomb attacks in the region.
Evidence collected at the scene led to the arrest of five suspected criminal associates of the wanted terrorist.
During a separate security operation in Abu Ghraib, west of Baghdad, Iraqi forces and U.S. advisors searched a building for a suspected al-Qaida in Iraq leader. They arrested a suspected terrorist without incident after discovering incriminating evidence on the premises.
(Compiled from Multinational Force Iraq news releases.)
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Anniversary of historic March on Washington conjures memories
Stacy M. Brown | 8/16/2013, 6 a.m.
Denice Tyree remembers leaving her home off of Maryland Avenue in Northeast Washington, D.C., early on the morning of August 28, 1963. Just 15, the teen would join the throngs who were to witness history unfold before their very eyes.
"It was exhilarating, sitting there listening to the entertainment and then to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. When it was over, I walked back home and, I guess, I became a civil rights activist," said Tyree, who joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), one of the organizers of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
Tyree later signed up with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and then worked as an equal employment opportunity specialist.
She now lives in Waldorf, Maryland.
"I covered the original march as a summer photography intern for the Westport Town Crier, a small weekly newspaper in Westport, Connecticut," said B.D. Coleman, a retired photojournalist. "I had just turned 17 and the week before the march. My parents drove me to the New Haven Railroad station to catch the 2:30 a.m. train and to join up with a group from Westport," Coleman, 67, said.
Coleman says he will attend this year's anniversary, mostly because of the wonderful memories that are still very much etched in his mind. "I can still feel the heat, the humidity and the hope that dominated that day so long ago," he said. "I remember sitting on the edge of the northwest corner of the Reflecting Pool, my feet dangling in the water, listening to those words of Martin Luther King that now belong to history. Of all the events I experienced in my life, and I was at literally every anti-war demonstration in Washington, D.C., the March on Washington is the single event of which I always say proudly that I was there."
More than 200,000 people of all ethnicities and ages took part in the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Organized by a number of civil rights groups and religious organizations, the march was designed to shed light on the political and social challenges African Americans faced across the country.
By 1963, the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, most of the goals of earlier civil rights protests still had not been realized.
High levels of black unemployment, work that offered most African Americans only minimal wages and poor job mobility, systematic disenfranchisement of many African Americans, and the persistence of racial segregation in the South prompted discussions about a large scale march for political and economic justice.
After notifying President John F. Kennedy of their intent, the leaders of the major civil rights organizations set the march date for August 28 with the goals of the protest to include: a comprehensive civil rights bill that would do away with segregated public accommodations; protection of the right to vote; mechanisms for seeking redress of violations of constitutional rights; desegregation of all public schools in 1963; a massive federal works program to train and place unemployed workers; and a Federal Fair Employment Practices Act barring discrimination in all employment.


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Soo... Playing too much Steins;Gate can really do something to you. I just wrapped up my Video Review of the Visual Novel, but while I was playing through, It made me think of the many theories of time travel. I decided to unleash a little bit of my own Game Theorist in me, and I was inspired by some of the RPG posts on TAY recently, so why not?
When we play a RPG, we have always been viewing it as one linear story, without any changes. What if I told you that all RPGs have branching paths like visual novels and we have just been ignoring them?
What is the Many Worlds Interpretation?
The many worlds interpretation is one of the basic concepts of quantum physics. Pretty much what it says is this: whenever a decision is made, the universe branches into two, and all of the worlds are real. the points that change the world is called a singularity.
What does this mean for RPGs?
I believe there are 2 singularity points in an RPG, where the path you take can influence the world of the RPG: Story changes, and save points. The first one is the most similar to the adventure games, where you have to make a decision in the plot in the story. Every decision makes a different world. An example would be WRPGs like Mass effect.
The second type isn't as obvious, and I like to call it the Save point singularity point. What is a save point? When you look at it in a gameplay perspective, you might just call me crazy. It's made for you to save your place, in case of a boss battle, or so you can come back. Think of it in a story perspective though. A Save Point, is an important point in an RPG.
They usually put these right before a boss,or some other important decision. When you think of it in that way, it's very similar to adventure games and Visual novel games, but instead of actually determining with a choice, you determine it with actions. Every time you lose against a boss, that's one world, and the people of that world has to live with that decision. Most games just flash a game over screen and brings you back to your choice, but some do show the consequences of failing, like in Chrono Trigger, every time you get a game over, it shows Lavos destroying the world. It gives a scope of your actions, and it shows what happens if you do fuck up. I think it changes the whole perspective of the game, and it gives it that extra push from great to absolutely fantastic.
Every time you come back to a save, think of it as another world in the many parallel worlds going on. Think of your experience as the cherry picked worlds, as obviously your death doesn't affect the story. Game Devs, if you are listening, give this a shot! Have it so it sticks to one world line, and where when you die, you just shift to another character and the world has to live with your consequences of the hero dying. I'd be great.
I hope you enjoyed this post, and next time, think about this when you are playing through some RPG, It could change your whole viewpoint of the game.


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A collection of scholarly works about individual liberty and free markets. A project of Liberty Fund, Inc.
1798 - 1872
Historical Period:
The 19th Century
Franz (Francis) Lieber was a German-American legal theorist and political philosopher. He fought with the Prussian army against Napoleon but was persecuted for his views following the wars. He went into exile in England, fought in the Greek War of Independence, before settling in Boston in 1827. He was an ardent Unionist during the American Civil War and wrote the Code for Government of Armies in the Field in 1863.


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Michael Weinstein is a self-styled "civil rights advocate" and Founder and President of a hate-tank called the Military Religious Freedom Foundation.
He is also the author of a Christian-bashing article that was published by the Huffington Post.
I wrote about an article yesterday about this article, Christian Bashing: Are There Any Limits? and readers followed through with a plethora of information on Mr Weinstein. One of the claims was that he is a religious adviser for President Obama. However, I don't think that Michael Weinstein is a religious adviser for President Obama or the Pentagon.
I've googled quite a bit, and I found that claim splashed all over the internet. However, I could not track it back to a reputable source. What I found instead were circular sources linking to one another.
I did find a Department of Defense document that says this:
Internet posts are attributing a statement that superior officers who try to convert those under their command should face court-martial to Mikey Weinstein, president of the Albuquerque, N.M.-based Military Religious Freedom Foundation, and are identifying him as a Pentagon advisor, Christensen noted.
"Mr. Weinstein is not part of any DOD advisory group or committee, nor is he a consultant to the Defense Department regarding religious matters," Christensen said. "Mr. Weinstein requested, and was granted, a meeting at the Pentagon April 23, with the Air Force judge advocate general and others, to include the deputy chief of chaplains, to express his concerns of religious issues in the military."
Based on the unabashed self-promotion I saw on the Military Religious Freedom Foundation web site, I doubt that Mr Weinstein would leave something like this out if it was true. If someone has a link to an original source saying that Mr Weinstein is a religious advisor for either President Obama or the Pentagon, please share it with me. Otherwise, I'm going to round-file that story as internet legend.
Here, from the MRFF website, are a few things about Mr Weinstein, who often refers to himself as "Mikey," that did turn out to be true:
- "Mikey" is a 1977 Honor Graduate of the United States Air Force Academy. Served in a Federal prosecutor in the JAG corps.
- A registered Republican.
- Former legal counsel for the Reagan White House. Committee Management Officer of the much-publicized Iran-Contra Investigation in his capacity as Assistant General Counsel of The White House Office of Administration, Executive Office of the President of the United States.
- Mikey served as the first General Counsel to Texas billionaire and two-time Presidential candidate H. Ross Perot and Perot Systems Corporation.
- In December 2012, Defense News named Mikey one of the 100 Most Influential People in U.S. Defense. As a distinguished "Opinion shaper" exercising a hard-fought influence over the U.S. Armed Forces, Mikey's influence has been recognized as exceeding that of former General David Petraeus himself by a publication that represents "the world's biggest military newsroom."
- On November 7, 2011, Americans United for the Separation of Church and State presented Mikey Weinstein with AU's first ever Person of the Year Award.
- On November 18, 2012, for the fourth consecutive year, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation was officially nominated again for the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize (its fifth total nomination)
Here, in the order in which they appear, is a list of the organizations that have submitted "partnering links" to the MRFF:
- Jews for Racial and Economic Justice
- California Church IMPACT
- Atheist Alliance International
- Constantine's Sword
- Jews on First!
- Mainstream Baptist
- Town Hall, Los Angeles
- Americans United for Separation of Church and State
- Calvets Investigation Committee
- Society-Links.com
- womenstanding
- Working Minds
- Humanists of the Treasure Coast
- Pacific Palisades Democratic Club
- American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado
- Center for Inquiry
- Free Range Longmont
- Chasing Evil
- the Horn, The Head on Radio Network
- Foundation Beyond Belief
- United Atheist Front


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A toddler shot during a robbery attempt outside of a Stone Mountain Kroger is in stable condition at an area hospital.
According to police, the boy's father tried to stop a mugging that was taking place outside of the Kroger at around 1 p.m. on Wednesday. Soon afterward the mugging suspect fired close to 10 shots into the man's car, injuring his 2-year-old son, authorities say.
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The Samsung Galaxy S had a relatively easy method to root, and did not feature an encrypted boot loader. Still, the phone never got quality ROMs based on AOSP. It was only a year after its release, that the phone got official support from the CyanogenMod team.
However, like Sony Ericsson and HTC, Samsung knows that they should get developers to support their phone. So, while HTC was encrypting boot loader on their latest handsets (EVO 3D, Sensation), the Galaxy S II boot loader was unprotected. Later on, Samsung also released the Galaxy S II source in less than a week of its launch.
Unlike the Galaxy S, SGS II was much better, cleaner, and the kernel's source code did not feature any proprietary code. Now, in a bid to further support developers and custom ROMs for the Galaxy S II, Samsung has gone ahead and sent a few developers a Galaxy S II.
The developers @atinm, @codeworkx, @dumdidum and @unhelpful were the main mastermind behind brining CM7 to the Galaxy S. By gifting these developers a SGS II, Samsung surely is helping them in porting CM7 to the handset.
Kudos to Samsung for supporting these developers, who are working on bringing CM7 to the Galaxy S II.